We’re approaching a tipping point at IBM with our internal adoption of DevOps practices. It was rather energizing for me as both a user and provider of DevOps solutions to participate in a meeting at the IBM Design Center in Austin, Texas in July,...

How can you deliver applications faster without sacrificing quality or control? How do you deliver 10X faster business innovation instead of 10% incremental improvement? New and established companies using DevOps have transformed their software delivery...

In this post I would like to take a look at DevOps through a ‘Lean’ lens. If one takes a look at the principles behind DevOps, one sees the roots of Lean. These lean roots, when studied and well understood, provide a framework to start measuring...

I have been selling continuous delivery solutions around Europe for some time now, and in this post I would like to reflect on what I believe is the most important lesson I have learned from the field. That lesson is that successful continuous delivery relies...

I regularly work with clients who are interested in implementing DevOps principles to improve their software delivery, so in this series we’re discussing how to get started. In the last of my first two posts on this topic (see step 1 and step 2...

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your...

In my interactions with many organizations, I have observed an unclear understanding of continuous software delivery . Most of the organizations think that continuous software delivery and project and program management are the same. This is not the case!...

In today’s challenging economy, businesses are under increased pressure to reduce overall costs while mitigating and controlling risks. The reality is that many businesses struggle to successfully deliver quality software on time and on budget that meets...

Due to a reorganization, in 2012 my team merged with our location's IT department and a central build and test team for one of the product areas to form a single organization called DevOps Infrastructure (DOI). At that time I had little understanding...

In my last blog post I defined what we want to achieve in our DevOps improvement initiative. Once that is done, we need to know where we are today. Sometimes it is difficult for my clients to assess on their own where everything is going well...

Software delivery is more a discipline of economics than a discipline of engineering, because it is a complex endeavor that is inherently non-deterministic and entrepreneurial…there is much more uncertainty. Successful software outcomes are highly dependent on...

Software underpins many of the basic activities we perform on a regular basis. Whether it’s using coupons at the grocery store, practicing a musical instrument, servicing your car, watching television, or even signing up for a parent-teacher conference (a...

We are now accepting nominations for our 2013 class of IBM Champions for Rational software. Champions are IBM clients or partners in the technical community who motivate others toward our software solutions and services by being: R esponsive - They are...

Rethink IT, reinvent business IBM SmartCloud enables a new era of computing Here is something you have probably heard from IBM Rational over the past several years: Innovation in software will differentiate your products and services from the competition,...

IBM PureSystems: Ushering in a new era for software and systems delivery The traditional approach to building IT infrastructure and software— where skilled engineers spend weeks and months to install, configure, build, test and deploy applications, databases,...

You know, innovation has become synonymous with software. That’s the major reason we call our annual conference “Innovate,” where we provide enough courses, certification programs, presentations, and living network of brilliant minds to qualify as a five-day...

Innovation, Collaboration and Optimization is the name of the game in software delivery today in order to drive better business outcomes. The typical failure rate for applications is about 60%, and most companies are still spending about 80% of their IT budget...

The ROI of your software development investments Understanding where and how we are spending our resources and getting return on our investments is difficult - especially for software development organizations... Many software companies manage a significant...

Tough economic times, it's time to think about how to make your business more agile Is your team working to make your business more agile? IBM’s Business Agility ( follow #BizAgility on Twitter ) initiative responds to the rapid pace of...

It does not matter what you do or work with - if you are a professional soccer player, area manager of an manufacturing business or are the CEO of a Fortune 500 - focus on value will always be of major importance and in order to focus on value the right...